The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: March 3, 2015 ISBN 978-0-307-27103-7 It’s the dusk of Arthurian England; an uneasy peace lies over the land. Britons Axl and Beatrice, an elderly couple, leave their village to travel to the town where they believe their estranged son lives. […]
The Spider’s War Daniel Abraham Orbit Books Release Date: March 8, 2016 ISBN 978-0-316-20405-7 In 2011, Orbit published The Dragon’s Path, the first volume of Daniel Abraham’s fantasy series “The Dagger and the Coin.” Five years and four books later, The Spider’s War brings this superlative series to a close […]
The Widow’s House Daniel Abraham Orbit Release Date: August 5, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-20398-2 Book Four of “The Dagger and the Coin” series, and you can just feel the threads all being pulled taunt as we move towards a breaking point. We’re not there yet – there is one more book […]
Hero (The Woodcutter Sisters) Alethea Kontis Harcourt Children’s Books Release Date: October 1, 2013 ISBN 0-5440-5677-9 Finally! A book with a girl – well, young woman, she’s at least 16 – who is the hero, who isn’t confused about the fact that she’s the hero. Who doesn’t normally wear skirts […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.